The daily grind: 6-11-13

The Daily Grind provides daily match-up advice for tinkerers and daily fantasy players. I welcome advice to help make this column more effective, including notice of impending weather events, new injuries, and changes to platoon situations. Ownership rates are from Yahoo!

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Today’s grind

Corey Kluber has posted excellent peripherals including a 6.0 K/BB ratio, but his ERA and WHIP have suffered from an elevated BABIP against and HR/FB rate. I have him in two leagues and I’m advising others to buy.

Pitcher (bum): Wade Davis‘s conversion back to starting pitcher is not going well. He will look good for short stints and then blow up unexpectedly. The Tigers have a brutally effective offense and should pounce.

Tomorrow’s grind

Pitcher (to start): Jerome Williams has seen surprisingly good results this season. His peripherals indicate that a 4.00 ERA is to be expected, but that kind of performance might be good enough for the win against Jason Hammel.

Mike Leake is a more solid version of Williams, but he’s also 43 percent owned.

Weather watch

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Struggling at 2B this year. Drafted Weeks, dropped him after a month for Kelly Johnson. This was great for about three weeks in May. Now Johnson has reverted to his expected form (or worse) and Weeks seems to be finding his stroke. There just aren’t any other decent options out there. Would you stick it out with Johnson or roll the dice on Rickie again?

Ab, if you can run both in a platoon until Weeks gets his job back uncontested, do so. KJ is a very easy guy to platoon and should give decent production if used right. But a platoon guy will only take you so far by himself. Weeks seems to be showing signs of life, but that can change suddenly too.

I’ve been struggling with 2B this season as well fwiw. Lost Utley and Gyorko in one league, and drafted Weeks in two. Have also had Walker, Johnson, Profar, and Kipnis in my various shufflings (Kipnis I acquired right before he started hitting again)